Word: toned
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...Moon Weitz had more money to play with, about $50 million, but in some ways he had a more difficult assignment. Not only did he have to stay true to Meyer's books, but he also had to follow the tone of Hardwicke's Twilight. Up to a point. "I wanted it to look more old-fashioned than the first movie," he says. "Hardwicke's film was very contemporary, very stylish. Very immediate. That was great. But not me. I'm a bit of an old fogy. What I wanted was wide-screen epic...
...playfulness: the only foods served at any occasion in the Village, for instance, are wraps. (You just knew they were evil.) And the sound track is heavy on Brian Wilson's Smile, his opus begun around the time of the original Prisoner, which lends this version a dreamlike carnival tone...
That lyrical and nostalgic strain was amplified by Johannes Itten, the unlikely man Gropius first picked to teach the entry course. A vegetarian, Zoroastrian and state-of-the-art bohemian, Itten knew more about yoga than he did about factory floors. In the years when he set the tone for much of what the school produced, the would-be school of industrial art could seem more like a hippie craft shop. A product of the Bauhaus could be a hand-thrown pot or a funky hand-carved chair...
...think that really set the tone for the rest of the game,” Kessler said. “We were successful on our power play. That’s something we haven’t been able to do much this season...
Hill set the tone for the weekend with his 3-0 dismissal of Brown’s Brad Thompsen at No. 2 on Friday, winning...